Well there were the chip pirates that re-labeled chips to higher speeds knowing that you could just set the multiplier and it would work. Locking the chips at least kept these crooks honest. What burns me about Intel was when they tried to lock the old Celeron chips so they would not work on multi-processor boards. There was a hack where you had to add a trace on the Celeron slot-I module to enable SMD mode. The PGA versions of the Celeron didn't need this surgery and Biostar came out with an SMD motherboard that would work with the Celeron chips. People were over clocking one version of the Celeron to 500mhz and running two of them on this board to get a "1 ghz" processor. Intel was OUTRAGED and made all sorts of threats (which they didn't carry out).
Oh come on! Just look at NewEgg's or CompUSA's websites and see how many different motherboards and processors you can buy! Not to mention video cards, hard disks, etc. There are PLENTY of parts available to build your own PC. This isn't going to change. Asus, Gigabyte, Biostar, and all the other MB makers will end up putting UEFI on their boards (probably a minimal version on nand flash, and provide a full version on a CDrom that you can copy to your hard disk. As for "white box" PCs, there are still many out there to chose from, especially those that make custom Linux or Game machines. It may be harder to find OEM copies of Windows to install on your home built computer, but M$ hasn't stopped Win7 from being sold by the parts vendors to "OEM" buyers yet. And of course you can just grab a copy of Ubuntu (or other distro) off the web.
One thing that hasn't been mentioned is the fact that current PC's running Windows 7 or earlier don't have the UEFI bios and therefore can not be upgraded to Windows 8, assuming that M$ has made this an iron clad requirement. So unless the maker of your old PC offers a bios upgrade you are stuck with Win 7 or will have to buy a new PC.
Don't knock this approach. The Russian space program uses rockets that can trace their linage back to the R7 boosters that put the first man in orbit. Rather than scrap a working design the Russians have improved them constantly. The SSME is really not a totally new design, it's based on the Saturn V J1 engine. The upper stage of the SLS will use the J1X engine, which is based on the same engine. While the SRB's have a bad reputation thanks to the Challenger accident, they actually have a good safety record. Similar (smaller) engines are used on the Delta rocket as boosters. The SRB's biggest problem is the joints between sections. The SRB could be built in a single large piece (one section), but would then be harder to assemble and ship. By stacking sections it is possible to build SRB's of different sizes and power to suit the payload.
I wonder how the SLS will compare in takeoff power compared to the Saturn-V and the Falcon-9 Heavy.
What is your computer setup? I mean hardware, OS, software you use to work.
KM: You send me yours along with the IP address, and I'll tell you mine. Good try at information reconnaissance."
Oh come on! That was a general question that he should have answered! I would have liked to know what processor, speed, memory, and OS he was running. Not exactly enough detail to hang anybody or trade secrets. I would expect him to be secret about which applications he modified to break security though.
Thank you for your overwhelming response to our announcement that Heathkit is back into the Do-it-Yourself kits business. We received many great suggestions for kits you would like to build.
We will be releasing Garage Parking Assistant kit (GPA-100) in late September and soon after the Wireless Swimming Pool Monitor kit will be available.
Based on your input, we are looking at developing amateur radio kits. Our goal is to have kits available by the end of year.
Please keep your suggestions coming so that we can continue to bring you interesting, unique Heathkit products."
Consider that restaurants now accept take out orders via fax. They just hook up a fax machine to a phone line and let the paper fly out of it into an "IN" basket of orders. (wonder what they do with the junk faxes for male enhancement products?). How would you do this with a network setup? They NEED the paper orders to be handed to the chief. How would you set this up with a computer to receive orders over the network? It HAS to be a plug and play system for these guys.
Look closely at the figures and projections. The rate of population growth is slowing. 44 years to double to 4 billion and 50 to double again to 8. China's policies limiting the number of children a couple may have might have something to do with it.
Many of the people who got killed in the storm died of stupidity. Stupid people go surfing in a tropical cyclone. Stupid people drive in 50mph winds. Darwin award winners. I'm not saying that all the deaths were due to being stupid. But many were.
Probably from under the car. Drive the car over a pit, battery is removed, lowered out of the car, new batter is raised into place. The process could even be automated and done by a robot.
In his River World novels, Farmer envisioned a Battery-Capacitor hybrid (he called it a bacapacitor) that combined the advantages of both. Samuel Clemen's riverboat was powered by the electric discharge from the grailstones and stored in the bacapicitor. It would seem that he was on the right track.
From the article "To match the convenience of a conventional car on the highway will require a combination of much greater electrical range with an even faster charging time, neither of which is around the corner." This about sums up the problem. Until a battery (supercap or something inbetween) can hold enough power to give an electric car at least 200 miles of highway range, and recharge in under ten minutes (time enough to combine a bathroom stop with refueling) the electric car will be limited to short city trips. Tesla motors claims such a range right now, but NOT the recharge time.
Guess you're BOTH right. In 2010 Jupiter implodes into a star and there are flashbacks about Bowman. In 2061 a mission is sent to Jupiter's moons where shards of Diamond are discovered, thrown out of Jupiter's core when the planet imploded into a star. In 3001 Jupiter burns out (actually such a small star should have a very long life, not just 1000 years).
Both models have the same number of cells. Both models do not use servos to move the cells as the sun changes position. The flat model has cells pointing in two directions to try to average out the movement of the sun (actually the earth) during the day to collect as much light as possible. The tree does a better job of this averaging out. Real live trees DO rotate their leaves to face the sun (as slow motion photography shows).
My Motorola cable box died recently and the new one that Comcast supplied did NOT have the Motorola name brand on it. In fact it only has the name Xfinity on it. I wonder If Comcast has designed their own box and contracted to have it made for them. (but by WHO?)
After you are finished with the ATM just press all the buttons on the keypad in random order leaving your finger on each key for a long hard press to really soak up your body heat. Kinda like scrambling the combination on a lock.
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Well there were the chip pirates that re-labeled chips to higher speeds knowing that you could just set the multiplier and it would work. Locking the chips at least kept these crooks honest. What burns me about Intel was when they tried to lock the old Celeron chips so they would not work on multi-processor boards. There was a hack where you had to add a trace on the Celeron slot-I module to enable SMD mode. The PGA versions of the Celeron didn't need this surgery and Biostar came out with an SMD motherboard that would work with the Celeron chips. People were over clocking one version of the Celeron to 500mhz and running two of them on this board to get a "1 ghz" processor. Intel was OUTRAGED and made all sorts of threats (which they didn't carry out).
Oh come on! Just look at NewEgg's or CompUSA's websites and see how many different motherboards and processors you can buy! Not to mention video cards, hard disks, etc. There are PLENTY of parts available to build your own PC. This isn't going to change. Asus, Gigabyte, Biostar, and all the other MB makers will end up putting UEFI on their boards (probably a minimal version on nand flash, and provide a full version on a CDrom that you can copy to your hard disk. As for "white box" PCs, there are still many out there to chose from, especially those that make custom Linux or Game machines. It may be harder to find OEM copies of Windows to install on your home built computer, but M$ hasn't stopped Win7 from being sold by the parts vendors to "OEM" buyers yet. And of course you can just grab a copy of Ubuntu (or other distro) off the web.
Well who would want that tatoo'ed on their ass?
One thing that hasn't been mentioned is the fact that current PC's running Windows 7 or earlier don't have the UEFI bios and therefore can not be upgraded to Windows 8, assuming that M$ has made this an iron clad requirement. So unless the maker of your old PC offers a bios upgrade you are stuck with Win 7 or will have to buy a new PC.
Don't knock this approach. The Russian space program uses rockets that can trace their linage back to the R7 boosters that put the first man in orbit. Rather than scrap a working design the Russians have improved them constantly. The SSME is really not a totally new design, it's based on the Saturn V J1 engine. The upper stage of the SLS will use the J1X engine, which is based on the same engine. While the SRB's have a bad reputation thanks to the Challenger accident, they actually have a good safety record. Similar (smaller) engines are used on the Delta rocket as boosters. The SRB's biggest problem is the joints between sections. The SRB could be built in a single large piece (one section), but would then be harder to assemble and ship. By stacking sections it is possible to build SRB's of different sizes and power to suit the payload.
I wonder how the SLS will compare in takeoff power compared to the Saturn-V and the Falcon-9 Heavy.
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What is your computer setup? I mean hardware, OS, software you use to work.
KM: You send me yours along with the IP address, and I'll tell you mine. Good try at information reconnaissance."
Oh come on! That was a general question that he should have answered! I would have liked to know what processor, speed, memory, and OS he was running. Not exactly enough detail to hang anybody or trade secrets. I would expect him to be secret about which applications he modified to break security though.
From the Heathkit web site....
"Heathkit
You The kit Builders have Spoken!
Thank you for your overwhelming response to our announcement that Heathkit is back into the Do-it-Yourself kits business. We received many great suggestions for kits you would like to build.
We will be releasing Garage Parking Assistant kit (GPA-100) in late September and soon after the Wireless Swimming Pool Monitor kit will be available.
Based on your input, we are looking at developing amateur radio kits. Our goal is to have kits available by the end of year.
Please keep your suggestions coming so that we can continue to bring you interesting, unique Heathkit products."
Consider that restaurants now accept take out orders via fax. They just hook up a fax machine to a phone line and let the paper fly out of it into an "IN" basket of orders. (wonder what they do with the junk faxes for male enhancement products?). How would you do this with a network setup? They NEED the paper orders to be handed to the chief. How would you set this up with a computer to receive orders over the network? It HAS to be a plug and play system for these guys.
Look closely at the figures and projections. The rate of population growth is slowing. 44 years to double to 4 billion and 50 to double again to 8. China's policies limiting the number of children a couple may have might have something to do with it.
If mail delivery is cut back will the due date of my bills be extended?
Buy my current house from me and co-sign my new mortgage and I'll move. Otherwise we can't talk!
Actually that sounds like a job for Philip J. Fry and Planet Express!
Maybe they will built it near Google's moon base.
http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html
Most plant material is a good source of cellulose. How many times a summer do you mow your grass? Turn all that grass clippings into fuel!
Many of the people who got killed in the storm died of stupidity. Stupid people go surfing in a tropical cyclone. Stupid people drive in 50mph winds. Darwin award winners. I'm not saying that all the deaths were due to being stupid. But many were.
Probably from under the car. Drive the car over a pit, battery is removed, lowered out of the car, new batter is raised into place. The process could even be automated and done by a robot.
In his River World novels, Farmer envisioned a Battery-Capacitor hybrid (he called it a bacapacitor) that combined the advantages of both. Samuel Clemen's riverboat was powered by the electric discharge from the grailstones and stored in the bacapicitor. It would seem that he was on the right track.
From the article "To match the convenience of a conventional car on the highway will require a combination of much greater electrical range with an even faster charging time, neither of which is around the corner." This about sums up the problem. Until a battery (supercap or something inbetween) can hold enough power to give an electric car at least 200 miles of highway range, and recharge in under ten minutes (time enough to combine a bathroom stop with refueling) the electric car will be limited to short city trips. Tesla motors claims such a range right now, but NOT the recharge time.
"'as if Alan Mulally left Boeing to join Ford as CEO, and announced six months later that Ford would be making airplanes."
You realize that Ford DID make airplanes a long time ago. Not only that but they were GOOD at it.
Guess you're BOTH right. In 2010 Jupiter implodes into a star and there are flashbacks about Bowman. In 2061 a mission is sent to Jupiter's moons where shards of Diamond are discovered, thrown out of Jupiter's core when the planet imploded into a star. In 3001 Jupiter burns out (actually such a small star should have a very long life, not just 1000 years).
Will it work for colon cancer? (YUCK! Fart analyzer)
Both models have the same number of cells. Both models do not use servos to move the cells as the sun changes position. The flat model has cells pointing in two directions to try to average out the movement of the sun (actually the earth) during the day to collect as much light as possible. The tree does a better job of this averaging out. Real live trees DO rotate their leaves to face the sun (as slow motion photography shows).
No, those things are bigger on the inside than on the outside.
My Motorola cable box died recently and the new one that Comcast supplied did NOT have the Motorola name brand on it. In fact it only has the name Xfinity on it. I wonder If Comcast has designed their own box and contracted to have it made for them. (but by WHO?)
After you are finished with the ATM just press all the buttons on the keypad in random order leaving your finger on each key for a long hard press to really soak up your body heat. Kinda like scrambling the combination on a lock.
The 911 is too small. Never mind the pickup trucks, you will likely be totaled by the first moose that hits you.